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Urban Resilience: 2020 Urban Learning Brief for Mission Staff

As cities around the world face more acute climate events, global pandemics, humanitarian crises and other shocks, there is rapidly growing attention on the need for urban resilience. Read More

The Building Blocks of a Circular Economy: USAID’S Local Systems Approach to Reducing Ocean Plastic Pollution

This brief describes each building block, outlines custom performance indicators, and provides examples to address key constraints to develop programs that use a systems approach and consider context-specific mechanisms and tools. Read More

CCBO Initial Solid Waste Management Assessment Indonesia

The following presents CCBO’s Initial Solid Waste Management Assessment (ISWMA) for the program’s three “engagement sites” in the Republic of Indonesia: Kota Ambon, Kota Semarang, and Kota Makassar. The ISWMA is one of CCBO’s first steps in its launch of in-field implementation and will support its engagement sites to create… Read More

Land Tenure in Urban Environments

The pace of urbanization and the number of people living in urban settings has increased exponentially over the course of the past century, with more than half of the world’s population now living in urban areas. Read More

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Support of the Urban Policy (SOUP) Project — Gender Analysis and Strategy

As cities have expanded, urban services have often not satisfied the basic needs of urban residents, especially the urban poor. Read More

CCBO 3R/SWM and Marine Debris Strategy Alignment Assessment – Indonesia

To inform CCBO’s approach, the program has produced this 3R/SWM and Marine Debris Reduction Strategy for Indonesia to highlight the ways in which CCBO can support existing marine debris strategies and to provide recommendations for increased impact. Read More

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean Peru Fact Sheet

In Peru, USAID is piloting solutions to stop the flow of plastic pollution to waters, within and surrounding the country, including the Pacific Ocean and other inland bodies of water. Read More